We're sure many of you are familiar with Zeitgueist. Either from his incessant commie shitposting in D&D, or from our doxx of him, which can be found here. His sexual proclivities have become a part of SA lore that follows him around like a bad dream.

As funny as this is, we feel that a major point of Zeitguist's hypocrisy was overlooked because of it. To wit: the fact that his entire life is at a complete and total variance with his stated ideals.

In our doxx of Zeitgueist, we talked about his high-paying job, the gentrified neighborhood in which he lives, and his appreciation for luxury. Make no mistake, despite playing communist online, despite professing solidarity with the poor, downtrodden and exploited, Zeitgueist's real life is that of an educated bourgeois consumer. What's more, he knowingly makes his living off of the very abuses he rails against.

The focus of this thread is to better explain the disconnect between an online communist revolutionary, and his real-life betrayal of his stated ideals, even as he tediously lectures others on how and why to be everything he claims to be (but is not).

Zeitgueist makes his living designing toy packages. Both his previous and current employers are often mentioned in articles about human rights abuses in Chinese factories. And not in a good way.

From 2007 to 2012, Zeitgueist worked for Mattel. During this time, that company drew harsh criticism related to conditions at the Chinese factories where its products are made. Here is a 2013 report from China Labor Watch detailing deplorable labor conditions at Mattel partners going back a decade (in other words, when Zeitgueist worked there):

In the span of one year, six Chinese factories making toys for Mattel steal between $8 million and $11 million from their workers. Mattel has approximately 100 suppliers in China, and these millions may only be the tip of the iceberg, because it is only through labor abuse that factories are able to accept such low prices from Mattel to produce its toys. Mattel knows about such legal violations, but it does not take the steps necessary to prevent wage theft and other abuse.

Quote

Mattel’s factories achieve cost reductions through the degradation of labor conditions, in turn violating Mattel’s code of conduct and local laws. Workers at the bottom of the system are forced to bear the brunt of this burden. Furthermore, Mattel clearly understands the breadth and persistence of labor violations in its Chinese factories. As detailed in a 2012 report published by China Labor Watch (CLW), for over a decade, audits commissioned by Mattel itself have uncovered labor violations in factories producing Mattel toys. But Mattel has taken little meaningful corrective action, and over time, Mattel’s public reporting of these audits has become more and more limited.

The report alleges that Mattel has, for years, ignored not only the findings of independent workers' right organizations, but that it has routinely failed to address abuses and violations discovered by its own internal audits.

The report continues:

Quote

Based on the findings in CLW’s newest investigative report, little has improved since last year’s investigations. From April to September 2013, CLW investigators entered six factories in China producing toys for Mattel, acting as workers in the factories for a period of days or weeks, working and living as any other production worker in the factories. These six factories included the Baode Toy Factory, Dongyao Toy Company, Nanhai Sino-American Toy Factory, Guangda Plastics Company, Taiqiang Plastic Products Company, and Merton Plastics and Electronics Factory. The factories together employ more than 20,000 workers. Through CLW investigators’ personal experience and over 300 worker interviews, CLW uncovered a long list of ethical and legal violations in each factory. One of the most alarming findings was the various methods—many illegal—that Mattel’s factories use to reduce their workers’ due wages and benefits. Through a combination of unpaid overtime hours, work hour trickery, and voluntary social insurance (social insurance is legally mandated in China), Mattel’s supplier factories are stealing millions of dollars from workers. CLW’s conservative estimates put the total annual amount at between $8 million and $11 million, and this is only the wage theft in six of Mattel’s approximately 100 Chinese toy factories. For example, at the Taiqiang factory, 6.65 hours of each worker’s work on the weekend is paid at the normal rate instead of weekend overtime rates. These hours are ostensibly “shifted” from the work week to the weekend. With about 5,000 workers, Taiqiang can save 600,000 RMB ($98,163) in labor costs each month with such wage trickery. Despite Mattel knowing about severe, ongoing labor rights violations in these supplier factories, it continues to provide toy orders to these plants year after year.

And this is the industry that fat gasbag faggot and faux commie blowhard Zeitgueist works in (and the company that he worked for during the time period covered in these reports), all while waging revolution from the safety of his keyboard. Let's take a look at some people who don't have a safe keyboard in a gentrified neighborhood to hide behind: the workers who are the focus of these reports. From another article by China Labor Watch:

Quote

China is the largest manufacturer of toys in the world, and Guangdong Province is the top toy manufacturing region within China. In 2007, China Labor Watch (CLW) conducted an in-depth investigation of toy factories in Guangdong that supplied to major international toy brand companies. The investigation revealed labor rights violations that included mandatory overtime, wages below the legal minimum, unpaid overtime wages, unpaid insurance, harsh and high-pressure working conditions, poor living conditions, and abusive management.Between June and November 2014, CLW carried out another in-depth investigation of labor conditions in the toy manufacturing industry, this time targeting four facilities in Guangdong, China: Mattel Electronics Dongguan (MED), Zhongshan Coronet Toys (Coronet), Dongguan Chang’an Mattel Toys 2nd Factory (MCA), and Dongguan Lung Cheong Toys (Lung Cheong). CLW’s investigation confirmed that the factories produce for some of the largest toy brand companies in the world: Mattel and Fisher-Price, Disney, Hasbro, and Crayola, including famous toy brands like Barbie, Mickey Mouse, Transformers’ Optimus Prime, and Thomas the Tank Engine. According to company information, the factories also produce toys for other major toy companies and retailers likes Target, Kid Galaxy, Spinmaster, Kids II, Tomy IFI, and others. CLW’s 2014 investigation once again uncovered a long list of labor rights violations, most of which existed in toy supplier factories in 2007, suggesting that over the past seven years, the state of labor conditions in the toy manufacturing industry has failed to improve. And relative to other industries, conditions may even be deteriorating.

Quote

The International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) is the organization ostensibly tasked by many toy companies with laying out labor standards for toy manufacturers and inspecting for compliance with those standards. ICTI’s code stipulates that in toy factories, working hours, wages, and overtime pay must abide by standards set by law. Yet in Chinese toy factories, most workers’ overtime hours add up to more than 100 hours per month, far in excess of the 36-hour monthly overtime limit set out by Chinese law. Some factories will even use questionable wage calculation tactics to shift regular working hours to the weekend in order to reduce workers’ overtime pay (see, for example, the report on Coronet Toys).ICTI certifies factories for compliance with its code of conduct, and it maintains a number of ranks for factory certification. Even if a factory does not comply with Chinese law or ICTI’s code, however, it will often receive ICTI’s certification. Factories that have excessive working hours, for example, might receive a certification that indicates that the factory is in the process of improving. The toy industry can forever employ this “improvement in-progress” stance to delay real reforms to labor conditions.

And what happens to these workers when they have the audacity to stand up to their employers and demand compliance with the law, to make no mention of ethical treatment and basic human rights?

"Redistribute your labor or we'll redistribute your skull."

Now, we know perfectly well that Zeitgueist is not directly responsible for overseeing conditions in these Chinese factories. He is, however, making his living in an industry that relies heavily on the abuse and exploitation of those whom he claims are his his comrades in the struggle against capitalism and corporate corruption. And he is doing so without a shred of irony or self-awareness. He's basically the Rachel Dolezal of communism.

Maybe Zeitgueist himself put it best, when he once posted:

Quote from: Zeitgueist

Capital must grow to survive, and must have an exploited class.

In 2012, Zeitgueist left Mattel. You might assume that, being a man who supports worker's rights, he sought employment with a more ethical company. And you'd be wrong. Zeit actually managed to land a job at a company that shared Mattel's shameful foreign record with regards to human rights. But this new employer also proved itself capable of behaving in an unethical and actionable manner right here in America.

So let's get this right. At the very same time he is posting about everything from commies r good to OWS bullshit on SA he was making a living working at not one, but two companies that abused Chinese AND American labor, the very people he "supports"

While also whipping a black slave.

And we are the fucked up people here.

I guess he is trying to pull a George Soros then? Working for the Nazis in WWII to help round up Jews to send to camps while being a Jew.

Well, I hope he likes his 30 pieces of silver.

« Last Edit: June 17, 2015, 01:50:42 AM by Doctor Jizzmopper »

Logged

My favorite Aatrek episode is "City on the Edge of A School Zone"

Kevin Dawes was sold out by Eliot Higgins.

Spanish Manlove is Luis Franco-Waite

The Postal Dude: I suppose it would have been more politically correct to kill the women and the minorities first.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

Ok Zeit, you've denied the black slave thing, said it was consensual, we can't kink shame, etc. Want to try and walk this one off?

Come here and explain why you, in all conscious, continue to work for such horrible companies. Why you, an award winning package designer can't have the fortitude to quit on principle and go work for a mom and pop sustainable toy company.

Ok Zeit, you've denied the black slave thing, said it was consensual, we can't kink shame, etc. Want to try and walk this one off?

Come here and explain why you, in all conscious, continue to work for such horrible companies. Why you, an award winning package designer can't have the fortitude to quit on principle and go work for a mom and pop sustainable toy company.

We'll wait.

Logged

I have a pet conspiracy theory about Lil Yachty. The Jews made him famous to put all the marginally talented blacks like Jay-Z and whomever on notice that their fame and fortune has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any talent they might have. Jewish producers can take the most retarded nigger they can find, a guy so dumb he can't even write his own name, hook him up to autotone, and make him a star. They don't need Jay-Z; Jay-Z needs them.

Next, you're going to tell us that Zeitgueist operates a diamond mine in Sierra Leone.

He operates a gold mine on the Something Awful forums

Lord Faggister from Castration Rock

Logged

I have a pet conspiracy theory about Lil Yachty. The Jews made him famous to put all the marginally talented blacks like Jay-Z and whomever on notice that their fame and fortune has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any talent they might have. Jewish producers can take the most retarded nigger they can find, a guy so dumb he can't even write his own name, hook him up to autotone, and make him a star. They don't need Jay-Z; Jay-Z needs them.

Every American communist sympathizer and leftie (that grew up in the states) I've ever met or talked with is basically as hypocritical as Zeitgueist.

They scream about evil kkkorporations yet they are the first assholes in line to buy iPhones, the first to tell you about this amazing item they got on Amazon Prime (because Amazon isn't as bad as Walmart simply because they use robots to sell Chinese crap), and fucking love gentrification because it means the shitty house they live in is now worth more because the poors have been forced out of the neighborhood. They drive Priuses because it is better for the environment to make a bunch of batteries and toxic waste AND use gas than to just use gas.

They scream about anyone being mean to trannies but then dog pile Dolezol because she's just using her privilege to adopt black struggles, but men don't do that when they chop their dicks off because they are being so brave giving up their privilege. They'll say Lena Dunham can shove rocks and shit into her sister's vagina and that is ok because she's quirky, Josh Duggar touches his sisters over their cloths while they are sleeping and he's an inhuman monster that should die (both are terrible shit lords). But don't kinkshame, because sexual deviance is normal.

They say how damaging and terrible Christians are yet turn a blind eye to the shit Muslims are doing because those guys are oppressed. Federalized Gay marriage is a must have but fuck you if you think federalized conceal carry should be a thing, that is a states rights issue. It is offensive to call Obama a monkey but look at this hilarious JPG of Bush looking just like a chimp.

They will beat it into your head that we have to pay a liveable wage, but when people discuss closing the borders and doing something about illegal immigrants to help the plight of native born unskilled laborers they call you a racist. We should help local businesses unless local businesses have opinions we don't like then they should just go out of business and good riddance. They will argue about how we created life in a lab from simple protein chains and that proves evolution, but then say a fetus isn't actually 'alive.'

They will yell about how cops are the only ones we should trust with firearms, and then say the entire police force is corrupt and racist and cannot be trusted. If you call someone colored they will condemn you forever, but if you say person of color then that is ok. They will smugly lecture you on how you can't prove god exists and religion is made up bullshit, but then have no problem buying into the ideas of subconscious racism, gender fluidity, micro-aggressions. They will say you don't have to prove a negative, it is on the person making the claims to prove it, unless of course those claims are racism then good luck proving how you're not a racist/not a sexist/not a bigot.

They will go on long tirades about how you shouldn't blame people for things they cannot change because that is how they were born, but then in the same breath will condemn white people for being white. They will tell you the military is full of morons, bigots, rapists and man-children, yet this same military is so competent and robotic it will easily crush gun owners and wrongthinkers, but not crush their marxist revolution. They shake their heads when they talk about how racist this country is and how awful lynchings and lynch mobs are, yet support the Ferguson and Baltimore riots because no justice no peace.

They say anyone who doesn't like something is a whatever-phobe, and that secretly they want to be that thing they don't like or are turned on by them, but things they don't like are describe as nuts or freaks. Gun-nuts, jesus-freaks, pro-life-nuts and on and on. They will bitch and moan about how awful censorship is, that the Superbowl nipple-gate is moronic, that breastfeeding mothers and gays should be free to do what they like in public, but then tell you straight faced there should be limits on free speech and that speech that says things they don't like should be censored.

They will say healthcare is a basic human right and scream if you mention that is forcing doctors to provide services for free, yet if you then jokingly suggest sex is a basic human right by their logic and that prostitutes should have to put out regardless of income...well now you're violating female body autonomy. They'll say we need to forgive student loans, bailout unions and school districts about to go tits up because of underfunded pension liabilities, but fuck Wallstreet for getting a bailout.

They don't understand a god damn thing yet they are so perpetually smug and act like they are the smartest motherfucker in the room.